Skip to main content
OCLC Support

Embed Internet Archive book reader

  1. Last updated
  2. Save as PDF

 Link:  See a live example.

 View:  View source code in CONTENTdm (classic version) Cookbook Demo Site.

Much like the video stream embed example, any external web resource that supports embedding can be pulled into a CONTENTdm (classic version) item view page if the stored item is a URL to the embed source. The Internet Archive’s Book Reader is a good example of this. If you have digitized books stored with the Internet Archive and like their Book Reader UI, you can pull it into your CONTENTdm (classic version) site using a JavaScript customization. This customization reuses a generic template for pulling in external content but adapts it specifically for the Internet Archive Book Reader.

Example URL item: https://archive.org/embed/birdbookillustra00reedrich

  • The above example is the officially supported pattern with this recipe. Some other patterns may work as well since this recipe has built-in some conversion mechanisms.
  • To find the URL for a book, go to the book page and click Share. In the above example, you will see the EMBED URL as source:src="https://archive.org/embed/birdbookillustra00reedrich".